Life-saving device.



K. Gk @ELSNER.

LIFE SAVHJG DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED um 28. 1915.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

KARL GUSTAV OELSNER, OF RIVERTON, WYOMING.

LIFE-SAVING DEVICE.

1 199 161 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented spt gfi, 1915.

Application filed July 28, 1915. Serial No. 42,451.

To all whom it may concern: holes spaced equidistant. Each log has ten Be it known that I, KARL GUSTAV OELSNER, holes to register with the respectlve holes a naturalized citizen of the United States, of the ten cross boards. The middle piece and a resident of Riverton, in the county 10 of each log is provided at each end with of Fremont and State of WVyorning, have a protruding pin, said pin provided with a invented new and useful Improvements in hole; Near the ends of each built up log Life-Saving Devices, of which the followis fixed a leather or brass ring 13, to bind ing is a full, clear, and exact description. the three separate pieces together. Through This invention relates to improvements in the ten holes of each log, vertical pins 12 life saving devices, boats and rafts, and the are driven which are enveloped with paper objects of my improvement are first, to conto prevent slipping. These pins extend struct the necessary material in such a form above and below said logs and have on each as to build an eificient raft therewith in a end a small hole. Through the hole in the short time, second, to allow for the building lower end of each pin is driven a small'cro'ss of a suflicient number of such rafts to actie pin or nail 12*, so as to engage the lower commodate most of the passengers if all side of said log and prevent upward slipother devices have failed and, third, to ping of the vertical pin 12. provide said passengers with food and Numeral 14, Figs. 1 and ,4, shows the drinking water. provision box having a length equal t'p To such end, the invention consists essentwice its width and of medium height. Said tially in a log float raft having log floats box is made double walled and is adapted each composed of three equal pieces pinned to contain food and drinking water and together by means of a plurality of long other necessities. A small door is provided pins passing through registering holes in on one side of the box and a ring 15 on each said pieces, each of said pins provided with of the four sides. 1

a short cross pin passing through a hole in The logs are painted red, the boards white each lower end. and the box blue. When not in use, the

he invention also consists in a log float logs and boards are tied up bundle-wise, raft having a plurality of transverse boards thereby occupying less space than an or- 30 provided with holes to register with the'holes dinary built up raft. In such a way, mate in the log floats. I rial for a large number of rafts may be in The invention further consists in a log readiness on deck. In case of ship wreck float raft carrying in the middle a double this material, logs, boards, and boxes, which walled provision box. are located on the deck or are hoisted onto The invention is illustrated in the accomthedeck, slip automatically into the water. panying drawings in which,- There they are expanded and'assembled as Figure 1 shows a top or plan view of the follows: The boards are laid over the tops raft with the provisionbox in conventional of the vertical pins of the logs and ropes form, Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal side view are laced through the holes of said pins of the raft with the provision box omitted, and around the logs and boards in such a I Fig. 3shows a single log in itsthree parts, manner as to cross both above and below the and Fig. 4 shows the provision box in deraft in passing from one pin to another. tailand'in conventional form. The additional two holes in each cross In order to enable those skilled in the art' board may be utilized to lash two more logs to make and use my invention, I will now in place if the material is at hand and time describe the same in detail. is available. Lastly, the provision box is Numeral 10 indicates the log floats, three l shed in place by means of ropes passed 01' five, as the case may be, Each log is through the rings 15 and engaging the composed of three pieces of equaldimenboards and logs near y. The drawing also L sions 10, 10 and 10. The length of the shows two end cross pieces 11* provided with logs depends on the length of the cross holes to engage with the protrudingpins,

boards 11,- and is always double the length at the end of each log. Thor-Opes are als of said crom boards; for example, if the passed through the holes in said-protruding boards are 10 feet long the logs will be made pins. 20 feet long. Each board is 2 or 3 inches I claim: thick, proportionately broad, and has 5 A life raft comprising a plurelity oi i 'ly extending 10g fiuats and tom of $2, $211 Zaour-ds extending across said tending a limits, said. boards and flcafis pruvided with boards. registering 310195, securing means cumpristing Yul-535021 ii pins in said b01625 and cross 5-: 5 extending i-hrough holes in the Wm ends 01 said is pins beiaw 'shc botf' ovva'. and unde r said. floats and x KARL GUSTAV OELSNER. VVinesses SfIT-HXTTQN; E. S. GILBERT.

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